Bieganski the Blog

Monday, December 4, 2017

In Politico, Tomasz Wroblewski argues that Poland's Independence Day March was not the horror show many in the Western mainstream press have accused it of being. He says that a small minority participated in extremist behavior and those extremists were not representational of the larger march, which mostly consisted of average citizens who just happen to love their country. He suggests that a double standard is at work, and other countries like France -- whose Jews are fleeing for their lives -- are not judged and condemned as Poland is. You can read Tomasz Wroblewski's article, "Poland: patriotic,
not authoritarian. There are legitimate reasons to criticize the polish
government. But accusations of fascism are absurd" here.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Maciej Kisilowski, an associate professor of law and public management at Central European University
in Budapest, argues "Poland:
authoritarian, not patriotic: Jarosław Kaczyński is building a state apparatus
that will do whatever it takes to protect the regime," that PiS is about consolidating and maintaining power, not about patriotism. Kisilowski points to PiS and the media, PiS and the judiciary, and PiS and public projects. PiS, he says, is currently aided by economically comfortable times, but when times get lean, PiS will tighten its grip to maintain power. Kisilowski points to fascist elements in the Independence Day March and asks why these elements were not prevented from participating, while, he says, peaceful anti-fascist marchers were arrested. In the comments section under the article, readers curse in Polish at Kisilowski, wish him dead, and accuse him of being secretly Jewish. One comment reads, "What an eye opener,
one does not need need to live in Poland to experience fascism, even just
looking at the comments of some of the fascist minded commentators here can
immagine what really is going on in that country. The xenophobia, swearing at
people, labeling anyone with a different vew a traidor, the hate aimed towards
anyone who questions them. it is obvious that the PiS has found very fertile
ground to sow its seeds of hatred"Another comment reads, "the march itself was
sponsored, among others, by the far-right ONR, something that the PiS
authorities must surely have been aware of."

Lifesite news ran an article arguing that Western, mainstream press misrepresented Poland's Independence Day March. I can't recommend the article. I don't think it brings much new to the table. In the comments section, a couple of posters said, paraphrase, If, as you say, the fascists, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists were such a small percentage of the marchers, why didn't the majority of marchers demand that the objectionable element not participate? That's a valid question. One comment argued that the fascists were paid agents of George Soros. A pretty far-fetched conspiracy theory. Another comment argued that homosexuals and abortionists are out to destroy Poland. Not a helpful point of view. You can read the article, "Here’s What The Mainstream
Media Isn’t Telling You About The Poland Independence Day March," by Dorothy Cummings Mclean here.

Friday, December 1, 2017

On
Wednesday, November 29, US President Donald Trump re-tweeted three videos from
Jayda Fransen of Britain First. The first video depicts a Muslim teen beating
up on a non-Muslim Dutch teen using crutches. The second depicts a Muslim
cleric destroying an image of Mary. The third depicts violence culminating in
murder. As far as anyone knows, these videos are authentic, and not staged.

Trump's
tweeting this material caused intense backlash. The world press condemned him
in the harshest terms ever used against him. The New York Times and other publications rushed to condemn the videos
and their sender, Jayda Fransen. Some alleged, without any evidence, that the
videos were staged or inauthentic.

The New York Times devoted many articles to
this topic. On the very day of the tweets, the Times rushed to print an
article, "The Stories Behind Three Anti-Muslim Videos Shared by Trump,"
that struggled to defuse the videos, and make them out to be innocuous. It was
as if the Muslim world were on trial, and the New York Times were the Muslim world's defense attorney.

A few
observations.

First,
the President of the United States should not use twitter. Twitter use demeans
the office and endangers the US.

Second,
I searched for over an hour to find any publication that supplied any facts to
support the characterization of Britain First as an "extremist, right-wing
hate group."

I
read articles about Britain First, visited their Facebook page, watched their
videos, and saw no extremism and no hate. They appear to be a small group of
older British people who walk around carrying crosses and Union Jacks and
distributing pamphlets encouraging patriotism. People spit at them and throw
projectiles at them, and they do not retaliate.

If
anyone has any information to support their status as an "extremist,
right-wing hate group" please feel free to supply that information in the
comments section.

Third.
The videos in question are not fake, and are not anti-Muslim. They do show
Muslims behaving badly, but there are an infinite number of videos that show
non-Muslims behaving badly; those videos arouse no outrage.

Fourth,
the gigantic furor aroused is very telling.

In
the mainstream press, academia, and popular culture, Poles are Bieganski.
That is, Poles are brutal haters who deserve every criticism. In recent days, world
press has condemned Poland for its recent Independence Day March. No one pulled
any punches in this criticism. In fact, mainstream news organs fabricated
especially inflammatory slogans and claimed that they appeared on signage –
there were no signs at the march that featured the inflammatory slogan.

No
one rushed forward to say that Poles cannot be criticized in this manner.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Disney / Pixar has a new movie, "Coco," and it is going to be huge. It will be considered for an Academy Award for best picture. It will rake in huge sums. Yesterday, Adrian Molina, the writer and director of "Coco" was on WNYC's Leonard Lopate radio show. Molina, in virtually every sentence, said something like, "Our goal was to create a Mexican movie. We hired only Mexican or Latino actors. We strove to honor indigenous Mexican traditions. We had to interview six hundred children to find a worthy Mexican child. All the music is inflected with Mexican sounds. We had to be sure to use Spanish, because Spanish is more beautiful than English..."

And on and on and on and on.

"Coco" is a nationalist project.

In recent days, the world has been discussing Poland's recent Independence Day march. The world recoils from POLISH nationalism, insisting that it is an evil threat to world peace.

"Coco," a MEXICAN nationalist product, will be hailed and feted.

BTW, the nonsense about needing Mexicans to play the characters in an animated film. Benjamin Bratt, as his last name implies, is of Northern European, largely German ancestry. His mother is from Peru.

Peru is over four thousand miles from Mexico. That's greater than the distance from New York to London. That's TWICE THE DISTANCE from New York City to Mexico City.

There is no cultural similarity between the Incas and the Aztecs. The one thing they have in common -- both the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire were defeated by tiny numbers of Europeans fighting with local, Native American Indian troops who were eager to see oppressive Native American empires fall.

I'm not protesting "Coco"'s nationalism. I'm not protesting the hiring of Mexican or Hispanic actors. I'm merely mentioning the painful and destructive double standards that elevates one ethnicity, Mexicans, and denigrates another, Poles. This is the dynamic I describe in my book "Bieganski: the Brute Polak Stereotype." You can hear the Leonard Lopate show interview with "Coco" creator Adrian Molina here: http://www.wnyc.org/story/coco